The Mancubus/Arachnotron MAP07 effect

[lerner]

I know the Mancubus one (tag 666) lowers all floors to the lowest surrounding floor, and the Arachnotron one is SUPPOSED to raise the sectors tagged 667 by 8. When I tried to get it to work, it didn't work. Any ideas why?

[Kaiser]

Actually, the 667 tag raises the sector by the y height of the lower-line texture.

For example, if you use a 64x128 texture like 'METAL' or 'SUPPORT3' as its lower line tex, then the sector would raise by 128 units.

[MasterOFDeath]

Its known to bug out horribly though with the arachnatron tag, read the texture wrong, and wind up going up too high. I even once had the platform in the middle of map07 go almost up entirely to the sky...

[Grazza]

It can sometimes rise twice (mechanism explained here), especially on Nightmare, but this doesn't stop you exiting the map. Getting it to rise more than twice generally requires a deliberate effort (and is unlikely without respawning monsters).

Unless you're referring to a port bug of some sort, that is.

[lerner]

OH. That's interesting. Thank you for telling me this. Now I can finish my MAP07.

[MasterOFDeath]

Grazza said:

It can sometimes rise twice (mechanism explained here), especially on Nightmare, but this doesn't stop you exiting the map. Getting it to rise more than twice generally requires a deliberate effort (and is unlikely without respawning monsters).

Unless you're referring to a port bug of some sort, that is.

Well it did happen in ZDoom... :P

[Graf Zahl]

MasterOFDeath said:

Well it did happen in ZDoom... :P

Don't confuse user error with bugginess. Besides, it has been fixed by now!

[Kirby]

What port do you plan to use with this wad? If you use Zdoom, you can script monsters to activate any special once they die.